Contours of Learning: On Spivak

Swift, Simon

doi:10.1080/13534645.2011.584407

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“…In order to escape the logic of ‘margin’ and ‘centre’ Spivak chooses a different name for herself: ‘teacher’. As Simon Swift comments: ‘pedagogy can become one way of thinking through a different relation to descent, a denial of the marginality of the margin and an exposure of how that margin keeps erupting in the center’ (2011:3). Spivak proposes a pedagogy of aesthetical education through which she re-imagines the subaltern as teacher, and the program of education as the training in the imagination to ‘learn to listen to the voice of the other (2003: 12–13).…”

Section: Subalternity/marginality/planetarity: the Spectrality Of Spivakian Feminist Thoughtmentioning

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Spivak, Feminism, and Theology

Vinayaraj¹

2014

Feminist Theology

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Feminism as a radical discourse has always been a challenge to Christian Theology. The contemporary deconstructive feminist social thought that signals a radical epistemic shift in transnational politics, economics and culture invokes theology to re-locate its methodology and focus. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's deconstructive feminism re-positions contemporary feminist thought in a post-Marxist, postcolonial, and postmodern epistemological context. This article tries to explore the methodological significance of the Spivakian de-constructive feminist epistemology and to sketch out its implications on the contemporary theological program. The thesis is analysed in three major sections. The first section is an introduction to the Spivakian epistemological 'itinerary'. The second section tries to explicate the contours of Spivakian feminist epistemology by elucidating three specific categories, viz: subalternity, marginality, and planetarity. The third section explores its implications on theological methodology in conversation with some of the contemporary postcolonial feminist theologians who engage creatively with Spivak. Spivakian feminist epistemology is being signified here in order to re-imagine a feminist systematic theology in a post-globalized context.

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Section: Subalternity/marginality/planetarity: the Spectrality Of Spivakian Feminist Thoughtmentioning

confidence: 99%